Category Archives: Pixel Based Imaging

I have made my own planets with different textures and techniques to make them look like real planets in Photoshop.

Photoshop tools to make The Solar System

These are the Photoshop tools that I used to make The Solar System, Outer Glow, Cloud, Level, Brightness / Contrast and Elliptical Marquee Tool. I created every single planet using these tools. I was not sure how to make these but with a little research and experiment I was able to design and create the planets.

The Sun

Earth

Mercury

Mars

Moon

Jupiter

Neptune

Saturn

Uranus

Venus

Pluto

Typography

Background for the booklet

Final Booklet

Poster

I made this image linking all the planets to create one big planet. The text is a from a speech given by Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian American astronaut.

Improvement

I got feedback about this booklet and was told that I needed to add some statistics about planets for example, temperature, distance from earth and diameter. The font needed to be lighter. Gaps to the edge of pages needed to be equal. All the pages needed clearer borders by not putting text and images too close to the borders.

I am going to make loPoly images in illustrator. I have never used illustrator before so this was going to be quite an experience!

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This is the original image.

This was my first attempt to produce the image and took some time to get it this far. I knew this was not a very good production and there was plenty of room for improvement. The shapes did not connect correctly and the colouring was all wrong.

We had to create a poster about audio visual experimentation for an exhibition being held in Talin, Estonia.

I created this poster in photoshop. I chose this design from a google image but was not to keen on the final look.

I kept in mind that the exhibition would be about the visuals linked to some kind of audio and wanted a design that would reflect gracefulness.

After much debate I decided to go ahead with the dance of the Indian peacock and use the peacocks tail in my design. The peacock is famous for dancing gracefully and the colours are bright and standout and can be seen from afar.

Initially I had the logo in the colours of the peacock and was going to go with darker shades for the tail. Once I started the design I felt that using similar colours was going to look to fussy.

I finally opted to keep the tail in the traditional colours and stretched it to the length of the poster.

The exhibition was going to be sponsored by the art museum of Estonia so I decided to keep the same colours for my logo as that of the museum. I felt that any extra design or colours would detract from the simplicity of the poster.

This is the screenshot of the image I chose the colours from for the peacocks tail.

Here is my final poster. I think it is easy to understand and is visually eye catching.

Improvement

After getting feedback I improved the poster to get a more modern and cutting edge feel.

I used the image of the building of the museum as the backdrop and used a cut out image with the exhibition info to create a new poster.

Here are the original eyes given to us that will be merged together in Photoshop to create a funky zombie eye.

This is how I created the zombie eye. I experimented to create the type of eye I wanted in photoshop. The tools I used were mask, layer, brush, hue/saturation, black & white.

Taa-daa, Here is the official zombie eye. I thought I did a good job but I would like to make more variations on the eyes.

As it was halloween I thought I would create horror posters for a new film using this eye as the main focus .

Poster

This shows how I made the design of the poster in Photoshop. I have added the eye, name of film ‘Believe in the Eye’, black background, credits, imax 3d logo, dolby digital logo, coming soon, and restricted sign.

Here is the final Horror poster.

Billboard

I decided to go all the way and created a billboard.

This shows how I put the poster into the billboard in Photoshop. I used vanishing point and found doing this project easy.

Taa-daa, Here are 3 billboards with my horror poster on them.

I feel more confident now and more creative using photoshop.

Improvement

I got feedback about the zombie eye and though it was mostly positive it was pointed out that the pupil had to many hard lines and did not look natural. The colours also looked jarring and it needed to be more professionally finished.

This was a task to place two very different images together one on top of the other to make them appear as if they belonged together.

This was done using the magic box of tricks in photoshop. Using the mask tool you can hide parts of a layer of an image, delete the finer details, tidy up the edges and after adjusting the brightness and contrast the final image appears as if it was always meant to appear this way; and the really cool thing is that anything you do with a layer mask is not permanent so you can be as flexible as you like.

I struggled with this technique initially but the more I practiced trying to work the mask I finally managed to layer my caution sign on the brick wall.

The next step in this process was to place this indian head dress on a motorway. This required more patience and technique because of the finer details of the head dress e.g. the feathers and attachments. Managed to do this quite well in the end because of the previous practice with the caution sign. The imagination does run wild at the possibilities of using these techniques on different images and backgrounds.